Manufacturing

Garments and textiles

GMAC urges government to reduce financial burden on employers

As minimum wage negotiations continue, GMAC has asked the government to refrain from increasing the agreed-upon pay bump for garment workers by $5 because it reduces the industry’s competitiveness due to the added financial burden on employers. Minimum wage negotiations between employers, the government and unions ...

May Kunmakara & Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50640403/gmac-urges-government-to-reduce-financial-burden-on-employers/

Cambodia’s rice farmers in serious danger

Half a million Cambodian farmers could possibly be looking at empty rice bowls if the European Union (EU) pushes through with the withdrawal of its Everything But Arms (EBA) trade preference. While the garment and footwear sectors stand to lose the most if the EBA trade ...

Jason Thomas
https://theaseanpost.com/article/cambodias-rice-farmers-serious-danger

Cambodia's garment manufacturers group urges EU to maintain EBA for Cambodia

The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) has urged the European Union (EU) to maintain the Everything But Arms (EBA) trade preferences for Cambodia, according to its statement released to the media on Thursday. The EU started in February the 18-month process that could lead ...

Xiaoxia
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-08/16/c_138313126.htm

ILO: Cambodia’s footwear sector ripe for investment

Cambodia’s footwear sector will provide more opportunities for investment and production than the garment sector due to significant growth over the last five years, said an International Labour Organisation (ILO) research bulletin on Cambodia’s garment, textile, and footwear (GTF) industry. The bulletin said the footwear ...

Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ilo-cambodias-footwear-sector-ripe-investment

GMAC makes EU plea to consider job losses

In a statement set to be published on Monday, the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) said the EU’s possible withdrawal of Cambodia’s Everything But Arms (EBA) access would harm 750,000 workers and three million families. ...

Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/gmac-makes-eu-plea-consider-job-losses

More than 30 footwear, travel goods factories open in first half

More than 30 new footwear and travel goods factories were opened in Cambodia during the first half of this year. This comes despite the Kingdom facing the possible withdrawal of the EU’s preferential Everything But Arms (EBA) agreement, the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) ...

Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/more-30-footwear-travel-goods-factories-open-first-half

Chinese firm plans to invest in cotton if second test a success

Chinese company Jiangsu Lianfa Textile Co Ltd plans to invest in cotton in Pursat province to process fabrics and supply the Kingdom’s garment factories, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. ...

Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/chinese-firm-plans-invest-cotton-if-second-test-success

GMAC: Protests hurting industry

The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) has warned that increasing industrial action is harming the investment climate as the threat of the Kingdom losing access to the EU’s “Everything But Arms” (EBA) agreement looms. ...

Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/gmac-protests-hurting-industry

MoU inked with GIZ to improve garment sustainability

The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Germany’s international development organisation, the Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). The MOU serves to implement the second phase of a multinational project aimed at improving the sustainability of the ...

Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mou-inked-giz-improve-garment-sustainability

Now Corp garment factory compensation dispute to be sent to Arbitration Council

Now Corp garment factory’s owner and representatives of more than 200 of its workers have decided to send their case to the Arbitration Council after negotiations failed following the firm’s latest compensation offer. ...

Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/now-corp-garment-factory-compensation-dispute-be-sent-arbitration-council

Over 400 garment workers to protest

More than 400 workers are set to stage a protest for “fair compensation” on Monday against Now Corp, a garment factory in Kandal’s Ang Snuol district that allegedly terminated their contracts abruptly. On Wednesday, the workers went back to work after Now Corp suspended its ...

Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/over-400-garment-workers-protest

Khmer Silk Centre opens at RUPP

The Khmer Silk Centre at the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) was inaugurated on Wednesday, with the aim of boosting research in the Kingdom’s silk industry.​ Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, Minister of Education, Youth and Sport Hang Chuon Naron hoped that the centre ...

Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/khmer-silk-centre-opens-rupp

Leading Chinese textile maker starts to build huge factory in Cambodia

Shenzhou International Group Holdings, a leading Chinese clothing manufacturer, on Wednesday broke ground for the construction of a new 150-million-U.S.-dollar garment factory here after operating in the country for 14 years. Lt. Gen. Hun Manet, deputy commander-in-chief of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces, and Chinese ...

Xinhua
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-03/06/c_137873415.htm

Ministry highlights drop in strikes and demonstrations

The Labour Ministry has reported a sharp drop in the number of strikes and demonstrations involving garment workers last year. The ministry released its annual report on Tuesday and stated that garment workers went on strike 47 times in 2018, a 51.5 percent drop when ...

Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50584631/ministry-highlights-drop-in-strikes-and-demonstrations/

Footwear protests continue into fourth day

More than 2,000 workers at King Maker Footwear Co continued protesting for a fourth day on Wednesday, as they demanded that 50 per cent of their salary be paid, after their jobs were suspended by the factory for a month due to a lack of ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/footwear-protests-continue-fourth-day

Calm urged as garment workers go against the grain

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday urged thousands of garment workers to stop demanding one-time payments of owed seniority indemnity because their strike and protest actions are against the law and could lead to more factories closing. ...

Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50567582/calm-urged-as-garment-workers-go-against-the-grain/

Workers to protest mass lay-off

Protests initially started almost two weeks ago over pay and conditions. The factory subsequently issued an ultimatum – supported by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court – that striking workers return to their jobs within 48 hours or they would be terminated. The workers responded to ...

Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-protest-mass-lay

Silk centre calls on private sector to take sericulture to the next level

Following a very successful year for the Kingdom’s sericulture sector in which its foundations have been cemented, the silk centre at the Royal University of Phnom Penh is ready for expansion. ...

Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50564895/silk-centre-calls-on-private-sector-to-take-sericulture-to-the-next-level/

More than 200 garment workers petition ministry

More than 200 workers from Prestige Garment Co Ltd in Kandal province’s Kandal Stung district have petitioned the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training for an intervention after the factory owner refused to reinstate their sacked representative who stands accused of intending to form a ...

Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-200-garment-workers-petition-ministry

Kandal rally enters second day

A protest by more than 100 of 300 Prestige Garment Co garment workers in front of their factory in Kandal province’s Kandal Stung district’s Tbeng commune, the result of their representative being dismissed, entered its second day on Tuesday. ...

Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kandal-rally-enters-second-day

Report: Kingdom’s total exports increase to $10 billion this year

The Kingdom’s total exports for this year increased more than 23 per cent from last year to $10.36 billion, led by garments and agro-products, according to the Ministry of Commerce’s annual report. ...

Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/report-kingdoms-total-exports-increase-10-billion-year

Factory conditions improving: BFC

Better Factories Cambodia has found that more and more factories in the country are complying with its standards when dealing with critical worker issues after it began conducting studies on factory compliance. These critical issues include child labour, discrimination, forced labour and freedom of association. ...

Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50556414/factory-conditions-improving-bfc/

Kingdom sees 69 factories open

Cambodia’s garment industry saw 69 new factories open in the first nine months of this year. But 32 others closed during the period, said a Ministry of Industry and Handicraft report. Ministry spokesman Oum Sotha who voiced no concern over the possible removal of Cambodia ...

Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdom-sees-69-factories-open

Cambodia's H1 garment exports up 10.73 pct, projected strong this year

Cambodia’s garment exports grew by 10.73 percent in the first half of 2018 and are projected to remain strong despite a European Union threat to withdraw duty-free trading access, official data showed on Wednesday. ...

Prak Chan Thul
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-stocks/nasdaq-confirms-correction-while-sp-500-and-dow-erase-2018-gains-idUSKCN1MY1LZ

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